Past

2012

25-29 June 2012 – BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week (Damn His Blood)

14 July 2012 – Bodies in the Bookshop, Heffers, Cambridge (1.30pm)

18 July 2012 – Random Acts of Violence, Heffers Bookshop Cambridge (6.30pm)

26 July 2012 – Oddingley Village Hall, Oddingley (7.30pm)

24 – 26 August 2012, Gdansk, Poland – Once Upon a Deadline

12 September 2012 – Waterstones event in Worcester

18 October 2012 – With Julie Wheelwright and Bridget O’Donnell at City University London

22 October 2012 – With Patrick Neale at The Norbury Theatre, Droitwich

26 October 2012 -With Peter Guttridge and Bridget O’Donnell at Guildford Book Festival, The Electric Theatre

28 October 2012 – Crimes of the Past, Peter Moore, Bridget O Donnell and Professor Jo Fox – Durham Book Festival

30 November 2012 – Watford Palace Theatre, 7PM in the Green Room Bar

2013

25 July 2013 – Hanbury Church, Worcestershire

30 October 2013 – The Green Centre, Worcester

2014

Tuesday 11 March 2014 – 1 hr evening talk, starting at 8pm at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden

Saturday 23 March 2014 – One-day writing workshop at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden

2015

11 – 15 May 2015 – BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

23 May 2015 – Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye

24 May 2015 – Greenwich Book Festival

17 June 2015 – York Festival of Ideas

25 June – City University, London

3 July 2015 – Harrogate Literary Festival

21 July 2015 – Buxton Festival

1 August (2.00pm) – Port Eliot Festival

5 September 2015 (2.30pm) – Gladfest, Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden

Sat 26 Sept – Cloud Appreciation Society Conference, Royal Geographical Society, London.

Tues 29 Sept. 15.00 – Wigtown Book Festival

1 December 2015 – Royal Meteorological Society, Manchester

5 December 2015- Tate Britain

2016

10 March 2016 – In conversation with Sarah Bakewell about At The Existentialist Cafe, Daunt Books Festival

19 May 2016 – Chalfont St Giles and Jordans Literary Festival

25 July – Portico Library, Manchester

Saturday 3 September – Gladfest 2016

2018

20 July 2018 – Captain Cook Annual Lecture, Whitby.

8 September 2018 – Gladfest

20 September 2018 – Portico Library, Manchester

10 October 2018 – Cheltenham Literature Festival

12 October 2018 – Literary Lunch, Wetherby

20 November 2018 – Menzies Australia Institute, Kings College London

23 November 2018 – Buxton Book Weekend

2019

10 February 2019 – Charles Darwin Memorial Lecture, Shrewsbury

28 Feburary 2019 – National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

10 March 2019 – Words by the Water, Keswick

13 May 2019 – Huntington Library, San Marino, California

8 July, 2019 – Ways With Words, Dartington

9 July 2019 – In Conversation with Diarmaid MacColloch at Buxton Festival

10 July, 2019 – Live Travels Through Time, Buxton Festival

10 July 2019 – Samuel Johnson and the Art of Happiness, Buxton Festival

20 September – Gloucester History Festival

Nov/Dec – Tuia 250, Blenheim, New Zealand

2022

2 March – Johnson Society Annual Lecture

2023

25 March 2023 (8pm) – The Endeavour. A lecture in memory of Peter Barrett. The Hub, Lichfield Staffordshire.

18 April – At Daunt Books in Marylebone with Sarah Bakewell talking about Humanly Possible

Tue 18 Jul 2023 – Buxton Festival

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 – National Archives Museum (Online)

1-2pm on Friday 8th September – Gladfest

10:30-11:30am on Saturday 16 September – Buckingham History Festival

18 September – American Inspiration Author Series

2024

1-5 February – The Jaipur Literature Festival

21 March — Lichfield Literature Festival